The Church Renewal Podcast
The Church Renewal Podcast
Latest Episodes
Asking God Without Manipulating the Answer 🙏
Praying together can either soften a church toward God or become a polished way to avoid Him. Matt and Jeremy dig into a tension we see everywhere in church leadership and congregational life: we ask for discernment, but we come with a preferre...
Can We Really Hear God Together?👂
56 churches a day closing while Jesus still calls the fields “ready for harvest” should make every pastor and church leader stop and ask one question: are we actually listening to Christ? We’re Matt and Jeremy, and we dig into why church declin...
When Jesus Leaves the Building 🚪
Some church decisions feel routine until they quietly become make-or-break: hiring a pastor, reshaping a ministry, closing a beloved program, reallocating resources, or choosing a direction when the “right” path is not obvious. We open season f...
Season 5 Preview 4: It Seemed Good to the Holy Spirit and to Us 🕊️
When you get to the end, you wanna be able to say, just like the Jerusalem Council said, "It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us." Mm-hmm. That is the hallmark of whether community spiritual discernment happened, that the solution that the...